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All delegates rejected Parliament's authority to tax colonies, but only a few actually wanted independence.
Some Southern States wanted the wealth brought to them by slavery, and they wanted not to be swamped by ballots by the more populated Northern States, so a compromise was reached.
People in Utah and New Mexico got to vote to decide if they wanted to be a slave or free state.
The South wanted to count slaves a people but not give them any rights. The North was more for rights, but if no rights, then no count. The government (House of Representatives) is filled by counting people in the State. So the compromise agreed upon fractionally counted Slaves as people with rights. Didn't give slaves any rights, but didn't give the Southern states all the power they wanted.
A whole new government.They wanted to protect peoples rights.They all agreed that's the government needed to be strong,But not to strong.